[afro-nets] Equity in Health and Health Care

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Equity in Health and Health Care
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Views from Ethics, Economics and Political Science
Proceedings from a Meeting of the Health Equity Network

Edited by Adam Oliver
The Nuffield Trust, 2003 - London, UK

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 From the author:
How ought we act? How do we act, and why do we act in the ways
that we do? And what are the implications (e.g. the costs and
consequences) of acting both in the ways we ought, and in the
ways we do? These normative and descriptive questions, which
very broadly fall within the domains of moral philosophy, po-
litical science and economics, respectively, are integral not
just to policies that impinge upon health equity, but to all
policies policies (and, indeed, to life in general). They are
questions that interest me, and since establishing the Health
Equity Network (HEN: http://www.ukhen.org.uk), they are ques-
tions that I have felt ought to be addressed exclusively within
one of the HEN seminars.

THE CONTRIBUTORS

Alastair Campbell is Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the Uni-
versity of Bristol.
Raanan Gillon is Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial Col-
lege, London.
Julian Le Grand is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at
the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Hugh Gravelle is Professor of Economics at the University of
York.
Stephen Harrison is Professor of Social Policy at the University
of Manchester.
Rudolf Klein is Visiting Professor at the London School of Eco-
nomics and Political Science.
Adam Oliver is Research Fellow and Lecturer in Health Economics
and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Sci-
ence.
Tom Sorell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Es-
sex.
Simon Stevens is the Prime Minister's Policy Advisor at No. 10
Downing Street.
Albert Weale is Professor of Government at the University of Es-
sex.
Alan Williams is quasi-retired Professor of Economics at the
University of York.